Planetary Healthcare: Balancing Patient Safety and Public Harm

Jodi Sherman, MD, is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology of the Yale School of Medicine, and Associate Professor of Epidemiology in Environmental Health Sciences and founding director of the Yale Program on Healthcare Environmental Sustainability in the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health. Dr. Sherman also serves as the Medical Director of Sustainability for Yale New Haven Health System. Dr. Sherman is an internationally recognized researcher in the emerging field of sustainability in clinical care. Her research interest is in life cycle assessment of environmental emissions, human health impacts, and economic impacts of drugs, devices, clinical care pathways, and health systems.